MONTREAL - Lawrence Proulx, 24, plead before a Superior Court Judge in Quebec City Monday in a quest for an injunction to stop the student disturbances which have prevented him from attending classes at Universite Laval.
Proulx argued that the student associations are acting illegally because the right to strike falls within the provincial Labour Code.
He contends that extending the school year doesn't work for him because he has already committed to a future employer.
However Félix-Antoine Michaud, the lawyer representing the association of social science students, argued that there is no need to stop the picketing.
Michaud argued that the university has the right to change schedules in exceptional situations such as this
He said the right to strike extends beyond workers and picketing and protesting is protected under the freedom of expression.
There have been two other recent legal challenges of the protests, with one in Alma being successful and one in Montreal being rejected.
The hearings continue at the courthouse in Quebec City Monday.
Meanwhile a few hundred McGill students took to the streets near the downtown campus Monday morning to demonstrate against higher tuitions.
Some students also declared that they would conduct alternating 48-hour hunger strikes. Four students from the Collège Edouard-Montpetit in Longueuil said that they would bring attention to their hunger tactics by making visits to 600 Fullum.
With a file from The Canadian Press
